On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Normando Marcolongo wrote:
# Hi all!
# My problem is to prevent some users, on my linux box, by accessing
# internet, excluding some hosts/networks.
# e.g. user 'root' and 'normando' will reach every part of the net,
# all others will reach only specified subnets like 151.100.0.0
# and other specified hosts.
#
You can't really have firewall rules based on usernames, but you CAN setup
a proxy on your firewall box that uses username based authentication.
Look into the SOCKS5 package. It works well for exactly what you are
describing it (we use it to allow NNTP access for various inside users,
and FTP access for another set).
G'day!
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